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Ex-Stony Brook chief unaware of $1B nuclear award

Originally published: August 30, 2009 8:39 PM
Updated: August 30, 2009 9:46 PM
By THOMAS MAIER  thomas.maier@newsday.com

Former Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenny

Photo credit: Thomas A. Ferrara | Former Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenny

Former Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenny says she was unaware of a $1-billion damage award made by the U.S. Nuclear Claims Tribunal in 2007 to Marshall Islands residents exposed to U.S. nuclear testing during the Cold War.

A Newsday story published Aug. 23 showed that the residents were returned to their contaminated islands in the late 1950s by medical personnel from Brookhaven...

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